jscotti

Well, if you're like me, you'll be a quivering mass of protoplasm in the corner of the room until the mailman knocks on your door with your beastie returned from Garmin....

quote:Originally posted by ooga booga:Looking through the logs during my recent visit to AZ, there's a cacher out there named Wolfb8 who apparently did 45(!!) on 9/9/02, most of which were actual physical caches. That was an impressive number of finds in a day! I didn't realize it at the time, but in late August a buddy from Tucson and I went up to Phoenix for a caching and baseball expedition and I ended up with a record number of cache finds in one day for the state of Arizona. We visited 22 cache sites that day with one not found and one that I had done before while he had done 6 of the ones I hadn't before, so I had 20 finds for the day while my friend had 14. The record stood for only 2 weeks until WolfB8's impressive day. A couple weeks ago, I had another reason to visit Phoenix, so I went up early and found another 14 caches. I did one multi in each visit, BTW, and only one locationless during my 2nd visit. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

That sounds very interesting and not a bad price. I had found some "Necklace journal" books that were about 1.5x2 inches with a hard cover that work really well, but I bought the half dozen that I found and haven't seen any more since. My latest logs for microcaches are just some well bound brown 3x5 inch notebooks (laced with folded paper and a taped binding) which I have been able to cut into 2 or 3 using a heavy duty paper cutter so they are 3x1.5 or 3x2 inches in size. Anyway, if you plan to mass produce your logbooks, I might be interested in buying a lot of maybe 10 of them at $2.50 apiece. Jim. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

Hmmm, well, wait a minute. Since it is marked on the face of the disk about fines and imprisonment for disturbing a marker, it seems to me that you ought to go through official channels if you want to try and keep the disk. I would guess that if it is legal to keep it, you can get the appropriate permission from the NGS. Otherwise, by contacting the NGS, you can clarify exactly what options you have regarding the disk and at least find out where you might be able to send it or whatever. Jim. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

Real geocachers only use a compass and map.... And who needs the cache description anyway? I feel like I cheated if I looked at the coordinates.... I score a 1 if I find the cache, a 0 if I don't. If I use the hint, do I only score a 0.9 of a cache find? Seems like I found it, one way or the other. You find it or you don't find it, whatever tools you used to get there, you got there. Jim. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

Real geocachers only use a compass and map.... And who needs the cache description anyway? I feel like I cheated if I looked at the coordinates.... I score a 1 if I find the cache, a 0 if I don't. If I use the hint, do I only score a 0.9 of a cache find? Seems like I found it, one way or the other. You find it or you don't find it, whatever tools you used to get there, you got there. Jim. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

Most of the benchmarks in my area that I've hunted for have been within about 1 arcsecond of latitude or longitude of the coordinates given on their data sheets. 1 arcsecond is about 100 feet. The data sheets themselves suggest an accuracy of only 6 arcseconds, though (assuming it isn't one of the higher precision benchmarks). I use the GPS, the descriptions on the data sheets and the topo map which often shows which side of a road or other topographic feature the benchmark is on in my search. I've often found the descriptions to be out of date due to road construction and other site changes, so don't take any of the sources as exact. Jim. Jim, Team Scotti http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/geocache.html

Some good ideas. There was a plastic sparky thingy a couple feet away from the marker last time I saw it that was covered by the groundcover too.... There were originally some reference markers near this one that have vanished over the years and I wonder if any of them are buried somewhere nearby....

Some good ideas. There was a plastic sparky thingy a couple feet away from the marker last time I saw it that was covered by the groundcover too.... There were originally some reference markers near this one that have vanished over the years and I wonder if any of them are buried somewhere nearby....

There is a marker on the University of Arizona campus that I recovered last fall (http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=cz1836) which was recently covered by the local groundskeepers by some loose groundcover of dirt and rocks. I think the marker was not damaged and is probably under only an inch or two of groundcover, but I'm not sure what to do about it. There are plans for extensive landscaping changes in the general area, though I'm not sure if they involve the actual location of the marker. I hope I can make the appropriate person aware of the markers presence so it can be preserved. I considered digging it out, but the area is quite busy and I'd have to hunt for it since I don't recall it's exact location to better than maybe 5 feet. Any ideas of how I can handle it? BTW, I also used the marker for a virtual geocache which I have temporarily disabled while the marker is unavailable. Jim.

I'm sorry to hear about Bec. I really enjoyed being apart of Charlotte the Travel Bug's journey, I just wish she hadn't gotten stuck out at Dragoon East where I left her (well, it wasn't totally my fault that the access to that cache was closed due to fire danger for part of the time....). Sure wish she could have gotten along a bit farther before we lost Bec. Thanks Bec, for contributing your bit to my journey! Jim (Team Scotti)

I've found some really cool camping items that I like to leave, including a combo whistle, keychain, compass, magnifier, thermometer. Also, I've started leaving sleeve's of golfballs and even Estes model rockets (the Mosquito is small and inexpensive & a "blast" to launch. ) Generally, I like to leave things I wouldn't mind finding in a geocache. Jim.

I've found some really cool camping items that I like to leave, including a combo whistle, keychain, compass, magnifier, thermometer. Also, I've started leaving sleeve's of golfballs and even Estes model rockets (the Mosquito is small and inexpensive & a "blast" to launch. ) Generally, I like to leave things I wouldn't mind finding in a geocache. Jim.